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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  , but I can’t. The blogs try to capture snippets of MIT life, but the ... --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  graduating high school and moving into college, I graduated in a lot of other ... . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery ... , the last 11 hours of Mystery Hunt flew by. I'm about to go to bed so I ... 9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  the west of there! July I spend two weeks in July at some warehouses ... about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time ... , Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  awesome questions but I can't answer all of them. When it comes to hacks ... still ran the risk of getting caught. I can't think of any students that ... I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... check if Lupe was in his office. I went to the fourth floor of building 14 ... In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  host a summit for all the recipients. In May, I got an e-mail from one of ... . Majora Carter came in and literally moved me to tears. I got 8 hours of sleep out of the 48. At the end, I hopped in a cab back to the airport

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  an apple in one hand and a copy of Paradise Lost in the other, and I ... : "The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  II of your choosing. For you juniors and sophomores, I highly recommend ... science course being complete and fresh in your mind. And since you can take ... cost, I recommend taking three SAT IIs in June. I encourage you to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  ’s see if I can answer some of the most common questions we get every year ... officially a member of the RA pool. Should I send in extra materials? You ... updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  . Luckily, I managed to jot down home of the highlights: How to sleep in ... of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very ... . The insect was properly disposed of and I thought that was it. NOPE. A ... think nothing of it, because I wasn't wearing my glasses. It took me a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  is a close friend of mine (I live in a single now :sunglasses:) He ... Transgender Anti-Discrimination”. In essence, the bill says that you can’t be discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their ... things yourself. i've learned that even when i'm in a "leadership position ... . how to be on top of your email. i've learned that mit runs on email, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  years of my life to a novel I didn’t believe in. [annotation note ... outside of school on the manuscript. My mind wandered in class—I was ... hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the ... Friday, I rushed out of my dorm with my friend Caroline, knowing that I was ... [/annotation]so I got first dibs on a lot of cute clothes. The entire event overall

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... elections a couple of weeks ago, and I'm the new Conner 2 webmaster (or ... new stuff and forgot a lot of old stuff. I'm really looking forward to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example ... which are kind of crude and can readily be found on Facebook (I'll leave ... you're feeling really hardcore you can take 18.01A which shoves all of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  blog posts of all time. In fact, just go read it right now. I'll wait ... experiencing such a beauty of a blog post? When I first read that entry, I was in ... in my life that I experienced the feeling of IT ME. I have also been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... ’s work! I asked several professors about openings in their labs, mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007